Dorothy: Rose, listen, you don't have to do anything to please your parents.
Sophia: She's right. I'd like to be proud of Dorothy for something, but I'm not gonna kill myself if that day never comes.
Rose: But my parents called me "Twinkle Toes."
Sophia: I call Dorothy "Big Foot." That doesn't mean she has to make tracks all over the Northwest.
Dorothy: What Ma is trying to say is that she loves me for what I am.
Sophia: That's right - an over-the-hill schoolteacher who has to wait for the phone to ring to know if she's gonna work that day.